The Canadian musician, poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen has died this evening at 82. Cohen was also...

From Melissa Myozen Blacker‘s Facebook post: “On the night of December 2nd, in a secret ceremony held late in the night during the December Rohatsu sesshin at Boundless Way Temple, I gave my student James Myosan Cordova denbo, or full Dharma transmission. The ancient traditional ...

Completed on October 03, 2009 Zen master Wu Kwang (born Richard Shrobe) is a Korean Zen teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen, a dharma heir of the late Zen master Seung Sahn. He currently serves as Guiding teacher of the Chogye International Zen Center ...

… Nothing found or, better said, nothing found that is not right where we sit every day, right where you are now, all along. I sat under the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, where the Buddha awakened … I sat on Vulture Peak, in Lumbini and ...

Working anew with mindfulness these last weeks I am impressed again by the incredible power of simply working with attention. We are usually not so deliberate about how we use this powerful inner resource. With practice it’s possible to hold the attention in a broad ...

WEBSITE: http://zeninamerica.com/ Hi friends! I’ve been having a blast doing this documentary so far, finding myself wanting to see it someday as much as anyone else. As you can see from the trailer, it’s not just teachers I’m talking with — I want this film ...

I recently returned home from our Sunday zazenkai here in Umeå in the north of Sweden. Everything is white outside my window and snowflakes keep falling from the sky — unimaginable numbers of them, somehow falling one at a time. These last few days they ...

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